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Originally Posted by niwell
The "bulldoze everything in central Toronto (or Vancouver)" crowd goes way too far but there's certainly a ton of room for gentle intensification in these areas as noted above. I can't speak for Van but the older central Toronto neighbourhoods already include a healthy mix of small SFHs/semis, "houses" containing multiple apartments, small walkup apartment buildings and some larger projects generally built either in 70s or recent years.
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It's the same in Vancouver, where the "houses" in inner city neighbourhoods
like these are often 2-4 unit apartments (or owner-occupied with a basement rental suite), and make up much of the city's stock of more affordable rentals. Less common in wealthier areas like the west side, of course.
Of course, to
buy into a neighbourhood like this means minimum $2 million for a freehold property or $1.5 million for a strata townhouse. There are some low-rise condo units available as well.
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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
The most densely populated "official" neighbourhood in Canada might just be in North York though: the Yonge-Doris neighbourhood has a density of 45,824/sqkm. It only has about half the population of the West End though.
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On this this topic, just came across this skyline shot of the neighbourhood in question:
https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-...for-36-of-cap/